Chenelle is a certified speech-language pathologist and first-year doctoral student under the mentorship of Dr. Margarita Kaushanskaya in the department of Communication Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She graduated with her B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Psychology at the University of Houston in 2018. She earned her M.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston in 2020. Chenelle practiced clinically as a speech-language pathologist in the school setting. Her research interests include bilingualism, bidialectalism, bilingual language development, fluency, and language and cognitive development in children with autism.